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I hate British Gas.

A while back, we has no gas in here as we just moved in. After trying for 3 days to contact British Gas, I finally got through, sorted it out and British Gas said they will send us the gas card, so I can top it up and then they credited the gas meter with £4 Emergency credit.

All is well and we are waiting for the gas card… until now.

THE BLOODY GAS RAN OUT.

And we still have not got the gas card!! Looks like a cold night yet again with no hot water. Going to try to contact British Gas tomorrow and see what’s going on with the gas card!

At last, the desk has been done! My hand is very sore with blisters. But it was worth it as the desk looks very nice & stylish!

The picture of the new desk with the new drawer, as before click for bigger pic.

Drawers is done.

And I have lots of blisters on my hand and the desk is not even done! It’s painful.
Now, the pic! (click for bigger pic)

Bookcase all done. See the pic below. (Click for bigger pic)

Still in boxed, but I’m going to fix them up now.

My desk has been delivered!

Very good timing.

Going to set it up now.

The ADSL Modem/Router has arrived!

Same with my welcome letter from Nildram with the ADSL account information.

I got two different e-mail confirmations from two companies, saying that my new desk and ADSL modem/router will be arriving tomorrow.

Because they did not know what time they’ll deliver them, I took the day off tomorrow, so I will be here to take the delivery.

I can’t wait.

Got an email, saying that BT has checked our phone line and it accepts ADSL! The line will be activated on 1st November, so I have ordered a new ADSL Modem/Router.

Should be arriving here soon!

Woohoo!!

Here are the images of the new house. As usual, click for bigger picture.

First Day

- First picture after we moved in with our stuff. Living room view #1

- Living room view #2
- Living room view #3
- Downstairs hallway to the front door. On first left: kitchen. First right is upstairs and the 2nd right is the downstairs toliet.
- The kitchen view #1
- The kitchen view #2
- Downstairs toliet.
- Upstairs hallway.
- The soon-to-be study room
- Another room

Later on in the week

- Living room view #1.
- Living room view #2.

Today images

- Living room view #1 Check out the new sofa!!
- Living room view #2. My PC is on the table, waiting for my new desk to arrive.
- Living room view #3. My boxes, need to sort them out soon after my new desk arrives with drawers and shelf.
- The Kitchen view #1. New freezer and moved some kitchen table.
- The Kitchen view #2.
- The Kitchen view #3. Excuse me for the piles of washing up! The small table with drawers near the window will be moved to the garage as we no longer need it.
- The study room view #1. Check out the colour of the wall!
- The study room view #2. That’s where my new desk will be.

Played TetriNet with and the lucky sod won all games. My excuse is, I haven’t played this game for ages, in fact more than a year ago.

Ah well, one day I will beat him.
Today is a very windy day. Weather on TV kept giving out warning about possible strong gales up to 80mph to 100mph. I have a few used cardboard stuff (from the sofa & frezzer) in the back garden outside and it’s flying around as the wind blew. Need to put them in the bin soon before it flies away.
Plan for today: Finish off my assignment so I can have a nice afternoon free with evening for a roast dinner!

Lo peeps, got my PC here yesterday, but because I don’t have a desk, I put my PC in the living room’s dinner table for a while until my new desk arrives within 5 to 10 days. Hopefully less. Then I’ll move it to upstairs.

I made a start on my C++ program as I found out that it’s due to be handed in this Monday, yikes! It’s a simple maths program suitable for little kids, which you can download from here. Go on, test ‘em to its limit and tell me any bugs/problems you found. Should work under Win 98/2000 and XP.

No help menu at the moment, so I’ll explain how to use this program. Select which maths you want to try, i.e. Addition, type in the answer you think it’s correct and click on the ‘Check Answer’ button. If you got it right, process to the next button. If wrong, you get 3 tries before moving on to the next one. There are 10 questions.

Thanks
UPDATE

Thanks for the reports, I have now updated the program - test ‘em away!

Howdy guys & gals, long time no write!

How are you all doing, people? Sorry for not posting very much lately, I’ve been busy with the house move, problems with companies (more on this later) and lack of phone line!

Lets summary:

Monday

Gas at the new house got cut off on Sat evening/Sunday. Thinking it was because the card meter has ran out, we tried to call British Gas to get them to send us a new card. But their customer service line was very busy. All day. Gave up. So we cleaned up the house, went shopping to buy some stuff for the house. Worn out.

Tuesday

Called British Gas again. No luck. Bah. So I called them via minicom number and got in. Explained the problem to them and they said they will set up a new account and credit it with £4. But then, they found out that the previous tenants has owed British gas “lots of money” so they can’t credit my meter. So they sent someone round to reset the meter on Wed. Gah, 4 days wait without hot water.

Went shopping, got digital box. Unable to get any signal, even on analogue TV. Bah, arranged a date for someone to install a new aerial.

Called BT to get the phone line reconnected and it was all done in an hour! The phone line worked well.

Wednesday

British Gas came & went without resetting the meter. He just left a note in the post, saying that we need to call again to arrange another time. He didn’t even knock the door! Grr, so we called British Gas yet again and got through quickly, complained and they promised to send someone on Thurs at 8am. Pah

Aerial man came, checked and found out that the aerial cable has been cut off for no reason. So, he installed a new aerial (as the old one was very rusty and in poor state) and rewired to the socket. Digital TV works! Yay! Watched lots of TV as we missed it since Sunday.

Thursday

Gas man came at 8:30am and reset the meter & topped it up with £4 credit. Hopefully our new card should come soon. Went shopping again and got some new shower stuff & shower curtain. Came back, waited for Argos delivery to come for the new sofa.

They came at 2pm, unpacked the sofa & sat on them! Looks good! 3 seats and 2 seats sofa. Blue in colour. And soft!

Had a look around the ‘net for ADSL providers and decided to go with Nildram due to good customer services, happy customers and very good service level. Ordered a package with them, and they will get BT to check our phone line to see if we can get ADSL or not within 7 days before billing me or cancel the order if the phone line can’t get ADSL. I’m hoping we can!

Once they confirm it, I’ll get a new ADSL modem & Router - all in one from DSLSource (thanks Damian for the help!)

Tomorrow, I’m hoping to go back home and collect my computers and my stuff. But I still need a workstation - can anyone recommend one? It needs to be a bit big to give me good space.

I think it should do it for now.

G’nite peeps, I’m off to watch TV now.

Got home from the party about an hour ago.

Now feeling sleepy, so i’m off to bed now.

Moved a lot of my stuff including table coffee table & TV stand to the new house. So far so good. Met the next door neighbour for the first time, a nice lady.

Took some pics of the house, which I will put up later on.

Cleaned the kitchen and it’s sparking clean now.

Now am here (home, not the new flat) to get changed and get ready for my friend’s birthday party.

You’re walking down a street, where you saw something glowing on the floor.

You bend down to pick it up.

It’s a magic wand.

You had a think, decides and waves the wand over your head.

*ZAP!*